Lake – we shouldn’t praise any reshoim.
But a mechalel shabos, or a ganav, or even a rotzeach, has not distorter and contorted the tzelem elokim and natural creative state of man. Man has vices and evil urges. But homosexuality is inherently evil, a corruption of the very essence of a person. It isn’t unchecked anger, greed or lust, which have a kosher flip side.
Rav moshe writes, while beijg sympathetic to one who has undesired attraction to men, that it is “lehacis,” and just evil on its own.
It is the opposite of what Hashem programmed the world to function with. It is not a miscalculated middah, it is evil incarnate.
But one who has such an urge and doesn’t sin, is kodesh kedoshim, holier than most people can imagine. It is a great lofty level to rise above such a desire and not sin.